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Hoeft, Mary E. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
This article reports findings from two studies assessing reading compliance among first semester freshmen at a small Midwestern two-year liberal arts university. The first study assessed reading compliance of students enrolled in two sections of First Year Seminar, finding that 46% of students reported that they read assignments, yet only 55% of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Reading Habits, Compliance (Psychology), Reading Assignments
Reed, Keflyn Xavier – 1987
After an informal study of 589 college freshmen enrolled in reading courses at Bishop State Junior College (Alabama) revealed that most students read out-of-class assignments only sometimes because of the degree of difficulty of the reading tasks, a series of directed and structured activities was developed to promote reading comprehension. The…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Literature Appreciation, Reading Assignments, Reading Comprehension